LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Prince Lewellen & The Scotch Fishing Craft Victoria
In the early morning of the 6th September a tele- phone message was received stating that two steamers had been in collision about four miles to the southward of the Point, and that one was apparently sinking. The crew of the No. 1 Life-...
The Tractor
The tractor, now uncoupled, reverses to pull the boat off her carriage with the launching falls.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Resolutions Passed at the Annual General Meeting for 1898
His GRACE THE DUKE or LEEDS IN THE CHAIR.
Moved by His Grace The DUKE OF LEEDS.
Seconded by Colonel SAUNDER- SON, M.P.
1. That the Annual Report be adopted, printed and circulated, and...
Category: Meetings
Other Life-Boat Launches
In addition to the services by life-boats which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 642, 646 and 648, the following launches on service were made during the months December 1968, January, February, 1969,...
Category: Services
Coxswain Charles Bowry of Sheerness Had
Coxswain Charles Bowry of Sheerness had to remain on stand-by at station because of bad weather instead of attending Hornchurch and Rainham branch 21st birthday party. This magnificent cake, a replica of his lifeboat, was to be presented to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fortuna of Memel
On the night of the 26th of November, the brig Fortuna, of Memel, stranded on the East Scar Rock, off Redcar. The Redcar life-boat proceeded to her, through a high sea, and took off her crew of 11 men, landing them in safety.
The Imperial War Museum at Duxford Near Cambridge
The Imperial War Museum at Duxford near Cambridge, a former Battle of Britain Air Station which now houses an impressive collection of military aircraft and vehicles, may not seem the most obvious place to find a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
HRH the Princess Anne
HRH The Princess Anne, has recently had the opportunity to inspect two of the RNLI's most up-to-date lifeboats. At Brixham (left), on a visit to open the new HM Coastguard Maritime Rescue Sub-Centre, she walked down King's Quay to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Annie, Johann Benjamin, and Briton and Krona
On the night of the 17th, lights, repeated in quick succession, were seen in the direction of the New Sand light, and the Donna Nook Life-boat proceeded to sea, but the unfortunate vessel, which was found to be the Annie, of Montrose, had...
Aldina, of London
On the 14th December the schooner Adina, of London, was totally wrecked during a strong gale from the S.W. and heavy sea, near the East Holm Buoy, on the Gorton Sand, off Lowestoft.
The Lcetitia life-boat at the latter...